Irregular use of the pill compromises the effectiveness of this highly reliable method. The consistency of pill-taking has traditionally been estimated through women's own reports of their patterns of pill use. In this study, self-reported data on pill-taking were compared with data from an electronic device measuring compliance among 103 women attending university health services and publicly ...

Diana Mansour, in her commentary1 in the July 2011 issue of this Journal, pointed out the inadequacy of the wording of the emergency contraception advice in the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority’s Combined Oral Contraceptives (The Pill): When to Start Taking The Pill, and Missed Pill Advice.2 We also need to remember the women who have forgotten one pill in the week before ...

CONTEXT Knowing the extent to which contraceptive nonuse, incorrect or inconsistent use, and method failure account for unintended pregnancies ending in abortion, as well as reasons for nonuse and imperfect use, can help policymakers and family planning providers support effective contraceptive use. METHODS Contraceptive use patterns among a nationally representative sample of 10,683 women re...

BACKGROUND Despite certain contradictions, an association has been identified between adherence to drug treatment and the quality of life in patients with type 2 diabetes. The contradictions observed emphasize the importance of using different methods to measure treatment adherence, or the association of psychological precursors of adherence with quality of life. For this reason, we have used a...

Background: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease with a high prevalence rate in Denpasar City. Medication adherence affects increased tuberculosis cases patients associated low attitude toward treatment, so it necessary to make efforts improve treatment attitudes and medication of by providing health education. Online-based education Google Meet can be solution delivering virtual face-to-face ...

BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY Men's and women's attitudes towards the male contraceptive pill and their trust in the effective use of the male pill were investigated, as well as the associated variables of reported health behaviours, perceived self-efficacy and type of sexual relationship, using a questionnaire survey. RESULTS Although both sexes had a favourable attitude towards the male pill, ...

CONTEXT Although studies have examined U.S. pill users' patterns of discontinuation, little is known about pill discontinuation, and the effects of partner influence, among Hispanics. METHODS Follow-up data on pill use were collected from 213 predominantly Hispanic women who requested the pill in an urban family planning clinic in 2000. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to assess th...

In this work we present a mobile computer vision system which simplifies the task of identifying pharmaceutical pills. A single input image of pills on a special markerbased target is processed by an efficient method for object segmentation on structured background. Estimators for the object properties size, shape and color deliver parameters that can be used for querying an online database abo...

The side-effects encountered by 1,090 patients taking the oral contraceptive pill were reviewed. The main side-effects were migraine, headaches, weight gain, depression, and irregular bleeding. Reasons for changing the Pill are discussed, and recommendations are suggested for a way of monitoring patients taking the Pill. Analysis of the results show that 50 per cent of patients are happy with t...

Der Artikel gibt zunächst einen Überblick über Open-Source-Tools für das Funktionale Testen von Web-Anwendungen. Danach wird eine Auswahl von Werkzeugen den einzelnen Anwendungsschichten einer mehrstufigen WebAnwendung zugeordnet. In einem weiteren Schritt wird das Konzept des InContainer Testing mit Cactus kurz vorgestellt. Gefolgt von einem einfachen Beispiel für die Anwendung von HTTPUnit. D...